Kono Taro

Minister for Digital Transformation, Cabinet Office of Japan

1985, graduate, Georgetown University, Washington DC. 1986, with Fuji Xerox, Tokyo; 1991, with Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific, Singapore; 1993, with Nippon Tanshi, Oiso, Kanagawa, Japan; 1996, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2012, elected to the House of Representatives; 2002, Parliamentary Secretary, Public Management; 2005, Senior Vice-Minister of Justice; 2008, Chairman, Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs; 2015-16, National Public Safety Commission Chairman and Minister on Administrative Reform and National Public Service System Reform and Minister in Charge of Consumer Affairs, Food Safety, Regulatory Reform and Disaster Management; 2017-19, Minister for Foreign Affairs; 2019-20, Minister for Defense; 2020-21, Minister in charge of Administrative Reform, Minister in charge of Civil Service Reform, Minister for Regulatory Reform, Minister for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs and Minister in charge of Vaccine rollouts; 2021, Chairperson of the Public Relations Headquarters of the Liberal Democratic Party

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